We’re jumping ahead to the big twist of this movie and the corresponding book, so if you care about spoilers, go read the book. ![]() In the house he spots two men speaking to a chair-Peter Pettigrew and…David Tennant…what? I don’t…why…ugh. He notes that a light is on in said house, and goes off to investigate. We then cut to an old man in a nearby house, setting a kettle on a stove. So the film opens up with a snake slithering through a graveyard, making its way to a house in the distance. The original plan was to do just that, but it wasn’t and we got…this. As we will discuss, Goblet of Fire should have been split up into two movies. I will, however, concede that he got the shaft more than any other director in the series. Unlike Cuarón, I’m not super sad to see Newell go. We once again welcome a one shot director, Mike Newell. This shift is less noticeable in the movies, since Prisoner of Azkaban leaned hard into the dark, especially aesthetically. Goblet of Fire the book is the firm tipping point in the series where we start shifting from children’s fairy tale to darker war story. It has a lot going on, lots of new characters and big moments they had to fit in. ![]() ![]() Now, to be fair, Goblet of Fire was always going to be a difficult book to adapt. So if your eight movie franchise peaks by movie three…these next five are going to be rough. Chamber of Secrets was the best film from an adaptation standpoint, and Prisoner of Azkaban was the best film from a film making standpoint. Sorry for the less than enthusiastic greeting it’s just…we’ve entered the dark ages of Harry Potter films unfortunately and, unless I decide to do the first Fantastic Beasts, we’re not getting out of them. Spoilers Warning for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire film and book.
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